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[MusicBringer]

I'd like some help with Tag Management please.
I have a few tags for music stuff I want to exclude for the time being such as Novelty, Christmas, Speech and so on.
I want to group them together under one Tag umbrella, so that when I need to exclude them ALL from a theme I only have to specify the Tag umbrella name.
Any ideas please?
thanks,

[btw these Tags are in fact Library Fields]

[DJLegba]

You can assign more than one genre to an album. So you set an album's genre as something like

Novelty; Hidden
or
Christmas; Hidden

Then define your view to display if genre is not "Hidden"

There are of course other ways to do it if you aren't keen on creating a genre named Hidden.

[MusicBringer]

Great idea DJLegba. Yes I use Genre a lot to separate much of my music such as live stuff, or bootlegs and so on.
I would rather not use Genre in this case. I have far too many Genres already.

btw these Tags are in fact Library Fields.

[DJLegba]

Great idea DJLegba. Yes I use Genre a lot to separate much of my music such as live stuff, or bootlegs and so on.
I would rather not use Genre in this case. I have far too many Genres already.

btw these Tags are in fact Library Fields.

Then use another library field. For example, set "Popularity" to "Not very"

[MusicBringer]

Nice ideas DJLegba, but not quite what I am looking for.
Umm, I have no wish to set up more fields that need to be populated. I have done all that work. I require a way to collate the existing fields into one.

[imeric]

I use grouping for live stuff that I usually want to exclude

[blgentry]

You can define a field that will use an expression to determine if you should exclude the file or not.  Here's an example of an expression that outputs "Yes" if the Genre is Classical or Jazz.  It outputs "No" for all other conditions. 

Code: [Select]

if(isequal([Genre],Classical),Yes,if(isequal([Genre],Jazz),Yes,No))
You could put this into a new field in your library and call it something like "Exclude Me".  Then, base your tests on [Exclude Me].  If [Exclude Me] is Yes, then don't show it in your view.

Brian.

[MusicBringer]

Thanks Brian,
Your example works when edited to use my fields. It fails when I try to add more.

if(isequal([AuType],SACD),Yes,No,if(isequal([AuType],180/200g)Yes,No,if(isequal([AuType],singles)Yes,No,if(isequal([AuType],DUPL),Yes,No,if(isequal([AuType],MFSL),Yes,No))

Instead of Genre I am using my Field called AuType.
The choices are: SACD, MFSL, 180/200g, singles, and DUPL.

What should the expression be, please.

[blgentry]

I *think* this will work, but I'm unable to test it because of your custom field:

Code: [Select]

if(isequal([AuType],SACD),Yes,if(isequal([AuType],180//200g)Yes,if(isequal([AuType],singles)Yes,if(isequal([AuType],DUPL),Yes,if(isequal([AuType],MFSL),Yes,No)))))
Brian.

[MusicBringer]

You very nearly got it!

In Set rules for file display...
The options I am offered are:
0Yes
1Yes
Yes

OYes gives me DUPL, MFSL, singles, but not 180 nor SACD
1Yes displays 180/200g only
Yes displays SACD only

Selecting all three shows nothing.

[blgentry]

Looks like it was missing some commas.  Try this:

Code: [Select]

if(isequal([AuType],SACD),
Yes,
if(isequal([AuType],180//200g),
Yes,
if(isequal([AuType],singles),
Yes,
if(isequal([AuType],DUPL),
Yes,
if(isequal([AuType],MFSL),
Yes,
No)))))
Brian.

[MusicBringer]

Brian, you coder/programmers amaze me. At my age, it is not a world I comprehend.
Ha, I was about to suggest one or two more commas were required.
Thank you so much.
 

[blgentry]

So it works?  Yay! 

Happy to have been able to help.

Brian.